FASD Hope is a podcast about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), through the lens of parent advocates with other nineteen years of lived experience.
FASD Hope is partnering with FASCETS for "FASCETS Friday" episodes, which will air twice a month. FASCETS Facilitators will be teaching our listeners a variety of topics related to FASD and other brain-based diagnoses.
Episode 81 is the FIRST episode of our FASCETS Fridays series and the topic is "Adjusting Developmental Timelines and Shifting Expectations" with Lynn Alsup. Lynn Alsup holds a Master of Social Work degree and a certificate in Spiritual Direction. In the Spring of 2014, she read Diane Malbin's "Trying Differently Rather Than Harder" while researching FASD for a friend. Lynn recognized her family's story. She dove deep into further research and began sharing her learning professionally and implementing the model at home. It transformed both her career and her family. Committed to increasing understanding, support and resiliency for neurodiverse people and their families, she became a Certified Facilitator of the FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model in 2017. Lynn founded neuro.behavioral.connections to consult with families and offer trainings across disciplines including psychiatric residency students and faculty, school educators, counselors, autism clinic providers, foster care providers, therapists and the Learning Disability Association of America. Lynn tells her story in her forthcoming memoir, "Finding Home: A Tale of Adoption and Transformation". She serves as a Program Director for FASCETS from her home in West Texas with her husband and three extraordinary, neurodiverse daughters.
In this first FASCETS Friday Episode titled "Adjusting Developmental Timelines and Shifting Expectations", Lynn explores and teaches about the following topics: her family and her professional journey, what it means to adjust developmental timeline, the importance of shifting expectations when parenting / teaching / caregiving a child / teen with FASD or other brain based diagnosis, developmental "leaps" and real life examples of these topics.
"Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” - Ephesians 3:20
Post-Episode GUEST CLARIFICATION MESSAGE from Lynn Alsup -
"When I listened to our conversation, I realized I misspoke near the end of our time as I said 'full independence' is the goal of both traditional parenting and the neurobehavioral paradigm. A great example of long held beliefs and values surfacing unconsciously along the life-long journey of shifting our paradigm to trying differently rather than harder! At FASCETS, we embrace the idea that humans are interdependent. The aim isn't 'full independence', but a healthy interdependence that allows strengths to flourish and challenges to be accommodated across the lifespan. That will, of course, look different for each individual. Thanks for the opportunity to correct myself!"
NOTE - If you decide to sign up for a FASCETS training, please let FASCETS know that you were referred by FASD Hope (as this helps in supporting us as an organization.)
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